Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...science student wouldn't benefit as much as his neighbor from seeing his exam in slightly more relaxed surroundings. And it would always be possible to admit the non-scientists to be admitted to the room 15 minutes earlier, with the examination itself starting after the scientists file in, pick up their papers and nervously start to work, perhaps even over-looking a question...
...buses will still be allowed to pick up and leave passengers," DeGuglielmo added. "But the drivers will have to keep moving. They're blocking traffic terribly...
...uranium boom on the Colorado Plateau has spawned another crop of big rich, led by Vernon Pick, who sold his uranium mine to Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. for $9,000,000 (75% of which Pick kept under capital gains), and Charles Steen, whose Utex Exploration Co. (90% owned by Steen) has an estimated $150 million worth of uranium underground. Hollywood's high-paid stars, who by tradition blow their wealth on caviar and Cadillacs, have also learned how to join the ranks of the new millionaires. Bing Crosby, for example, was able to buy 20,000 shares...
Constitutional. In Lewisburg, Ohio, John F. Lock won a 52-year battle to get his rural mailbox moved 1,056 ft. nearer his home after he proved that he had already walked 6,250 miles to pick up his mail...
...sell their products, the Swansons also go right to the housewife. Clarke Swanson likes to prowl supermarket food counters, see for himself how housewives shop. Says he: "I watch them pick up a package, drop it, pick up another, look at the picture. Finally, they put something in the basket. Then I ask them why." One thing he found was that the picture on the package was just as important as the price tag. As a result. Swanson packages all have bright, tempting wrappers...